Whatever happened to "family values" in Oklahoma?

[Brian_Expat]

http://www.dallasvoice.com/articles/dispArticle.cfm?Article_ID=4640

Oklahoma will no longer recognize the legality of adoptions by same-sex couples from anywhere outside the state, according to legislation signed May 4 by Gov. Brad Henry.

State Sen. James Williamson, R-Tulsa, offered the measure as an amendment to another bill. The Senate passed it 44-0 on April 12 and the House approved it April 26 by a vote of 93-4.

Lesbian Gay Rights Lobby of Texas issued a warning to gay and lesbian couples with adopted children. According to the group, the new law could endanger the legal status of their families if they travel in Oklahoma.

The state for years has permitted only a single unmarried person to adopt, whether heterosexual or homosexual. As in Texas, two unmarried adults are barred from adopting.

“Can you imagine driving across the state of Oklahoma, having an accident, and all of a sudden your children are not your children anymore?” said Randall Ellis, the Texas gay lobby’s executive director.

That law wasn't proposed, voted into law, and signed by a majority of Democrats.

And states like OK or Alabama cannot understand why they cannot get high-tech investment dollars. Why would a company like Intel or Apple move facilities there from California or New York and have all their gay designers, businesspeople, etc. all quit and go work for a competitor? Who in their right mind would want to set up shop in a state like that, where a substantial chunk of their employee talent would be utterly oppressed by a bunch of religious whackos?

[bobbieinok]

1. repub mailings in 2002 all had 'supporting traditional OK values' on them

I have read the first law passed after OK became a state in 1907 was a 'Jim Crow' law.

So maybe the OK repubs were telling the truth for once.

[Brian_Expat]

2. This is just shocking stuff. . .

. . . like something you'd see in Nazi Germany. This is a state essentially trying to take people's children from them as part of an institutionalised system of discrimination.

It's truly shocking, yet got NO play in the media WHATSOEVER outside of regional gay periodicals.

Can you imagine if, say, Connecticut passed a law "not recognising the parenting rights of out-of-state-recognised fundamentalist parents?" The media would be in an uproar across the country and Bill O'Reilly would devote five shows to this "outrage!!!"